1. make shift - Noun
2. make shift - Adjective
3. make shift - Verb
make shift (third-person singular simple present makes shift, present participle making shift, simple past and past participle made shift)
(dated) To contrive; to invent a way of surmounting a difficulty.
make shift (comparative more make shift, superlative most make shift)
Alternative form of makeshift.
make shift (plural make shifts)
Alternative form of makeshift.
make-shift (comparative more make-shift, superlative most make-shift)
Alternative form of makeshift.
make-shift (plural make-shifts)
Alternative form of makeshift.
make-shift
Lady: How do's it fit? wilt come together? Prudence: Hardly. Lad: Thou must make shift with it. Pride feels no Pain. Ben Jonson
Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal. Francis Bacon
But a photo of his kitchen shows what San Joaquin County Sheriff’s deputies describe as a make-shift surgery table where he operated on dogs. Source: Internet
Gibb, 44, is therefore over the moon to be out there on the make-shift court at the Convention Center. Source: Internet
Another add-on is that one of Overlock’s Catholic Charities co-workers, Scott Gubala, is now coming on Saturdays to cut guests’ hair in a make-shift “barber shop.” Source: Internet
At some point in the night, a few representative parents hid behind the bedroom doors upstairs, and the children knocked on the doors for a make shift trick-or-treating round. Source: Internet